Typee
Subtitle: Volume One, Scholarly Edition (Melville)
Contributors: Harrison Hayford (Editor); G. Thomas Tanselle (Editor); Hershel Parker (Editor)
Publisher: Northwestern University Press
Published: January 1, 1968
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 374
ISBN-13: 9780810101616
Subjects: Literature: Texts; Marquesas Islands (French Poly; Fiction; Adventure stories; Sailors; Literary Collections; Literature - Classics / Criticism; Literature: Classics; Indigenous peoples; Classics; Fiction / Classics; Marquesas Islands (French Polynesia); American - General
First sentence: SIX months at sea!
Description: Describes the adventures of a sailor who jumps ship at a south sea island inhabited by cannibals, a voyage around Polynesia, and a quest for an elusive beauty among the islands of a tropical archipelago.